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You and Your Research (skip right to THE TALK)
a talk given some 30 years ago by Richard Hamming, discusses what you should do if you want to get some great work done in your life. Not only for researchers!
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what is it about physicists that causes them to drift towards lifecoaching? its like theyre continuously impressed with their own ability to be functioning human beings.... teetering on the edge? why don't, say, chemists give speeches like this?
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I don't think that changed my philosophy of life or presented anything ground-breaking, but it certainly was a good read. I'm not going to attempt to answer your question, Andrew, but I will say that at least he did it in a respectable fashion, recognizing his own faults and failures and using them as evidence to help others.
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I don't think Hamming is even a physicist. Did he not work on information theroy, ("Hamming code" comes to my mind), which is more like mathematics / computer science?
Anyway, I think he is great, I like being lifecoached! If he is a physicist, all the better! I really like his three questions:
What is the most important problem in your field?
Are you working on it?
Why not?
I wish my supervisor would ask me that from time to time!
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I had to think long and hard about that one. I guess the most important problem in my field is either solving the energy crisis, or inventing the "Do What I Mean Button". I've been working on it for ages and I'm stuck. What about the rest of you guys?
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joe wrote ...
I don't think Hamming is even a physicist. Did he not work on information theroy, ("Hamming code" comes to my mind), which is more like mathematics / computer science?
Hamming window in spectral theory (which is sort of signal processing which is sort of information theory). I guess that's the same person.
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“Amusement, yes, anger, no. Anger is misdirected.†(Yoda?) That guy forgot to properly cite Yoda.
The guy that served sandwiches at bell labs also knows everyone. The sandwich man provided food and coffee for far more important people then this guy knew. The sandwich man is often incorrectly identified as a fictional character like Forest Gump. And even though at the time he seemed unimportant -- the case was closed when the guy who ordered cherry flavoured Jell-O won a Nobel Prize. Jimmy the Toner cartridge guy went on to achieve greater things only a few years later.
Quoting Einstein – “Arf bark bark bark Arf†(a neighbour’s rather clever dog that has outsmarted more than a few PhD people.)
Hmmmm, indeed...
You know what is really funny... If you win a Lottery or actually succeed in any area (business or academics) – it’s often the most counterproductive useless individuals that show up first.
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Another good read
What about the rest of you guys?
